147 W. Va. 331 - Seagraves v. Legg’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 382 - Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1974), Deems v. Western Maryland Railway Co. (1967)
11 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. · Smither and Company, Inc. v. Franciska T. Coles · Argonne Co. v. Hitaffer · Beota Rogers Thibodeaux v. J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., and the Travelers Insurance Company, J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., and the Travelers Insurance Company, Cross-Appellant v. Beota Rogers Thibodeaux, Cross-Appellee · 88 Ga. App. 519 - Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear, from the constitutional provisions and the statute pertaining thereto, that the legislature has the power to change the common law, and inasmuch as it has not done so in connection with the question involved in this case, the common law relating thereto remains the law of this State. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Apparently these states do not have the same constitutional and statutory provisions as West Virginia, and are not committed by their constitution and statutory law to follow the common law unless it is changed, altered or repealed by the legislature, as is West Virginia. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.